I recently installed Debian Stable it went pretty well apart from one peculiar keyboard problem - I can't produce the 'Pound' sign. On a UK keyboard this is Shift/3 when I press Shift/3 all I get is 3! Now normally you would jump right in and say - " You have the US keyboard map selected". But I don't, because every other key on the board is in the correct position for a UK keyboard (and that would not be the case with a US keymap).

In keyboard properties I only have the UK map listed, I have deleted all others and UK is set as default. The keyboard type is listed as 'Generic 105 key (Intl)PC'.

Following advice from various internet sites I have tried adding these lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (in the 'input' section):